Comments on: Apple’s blog server.

By: A Teel

A Teel — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:56:09 +0000

Tom H.

We installed an XSERVE and are unable to post podcast. We receive a HTTP status 500 error as well. Apple support seems to have no answers.

Also the server will not update its software.

Has anyone found a solution or cause?

By: Robert Ojok

Robert Ojok — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:21:30 +0000

Hi thanks for your informative site. I have recently setup a podcast server and have been trying to see how I can integrate it with iWeb which is simple for users at my university to use. Problem is – how do you and where do you upload the files that have been created by iWeb when you save to folder as opposed to .mac so that users can have a feel of the iWeb templates and easy updates?

By: jkjkj

jkjkj — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:10:02 +0000

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By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:40:36 +0000

It’s worth mentioning that Blojsom’s “templates” folder is classed. So if you want to modify the basic templates (say, “html.vm”), for every blog on the system, you could edit

/Library/Tomcat/blojsom_root/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/templates

But if you just wanted to change one blogger’s “html.vm” template, you can make a new directory called

/Library/Tomcat/blojsom_root/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF//templates

if it doesn’t exist already, and copy files you want to subclass over from the main templates directory.

By: Matt Maciag

Matt Maciag — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:20:37 +0000

Good afternnon,

I realize this blog hasn’t been posted to in some time, but I am hoping that someone might see this. I have an Apple blog that, mysteriously, has lost some entries and comments. They simple ceased to exist on the blog and they don’t appear anywhere in the file structure. We haven’t deleted the entries, the users, or anything of that nature. I know in the admin panel, there is an entry for “comment expiration”. That had no entry in the field and just in case, I’ve added zero to it to make sure items don’t expire. Is there anyone that has had this disappearing content issue? If so, did you notice what was causing it or solve it yourself. Please contact me if you have and thanks for your help.

Matt Maciag
Bullock Creek Schools
Midland, MI

By: Rich Trouton

Rich Trouton — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 20:22:43 +0000

Tom H,

The places where you’re getting the errors are the places that Apple altered the base Blojsom package so that it would work better for what they wanted. Templates was one of those, as Apple changed the standard Blojsom templates out for their own custom setup.

By: Tom H

Tom H — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 20:14:14 +0000

I’m also having that RSS issue with Firefox, but the main thing thats been bugging me is I’m getting scary Tomcat errors when trying to access certain (but not all) areas of the admin console like templates:

HTTP Status 500 – The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request. This is followed by about 30 lines of errors :-(

Anyone else having this problem ?
Otherwise using Blojsom’s been a blast

By: neilt

neilt — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:50:47 +0000

Anyone having trouble with the rss function for PC’s? Safari sees the rss feeds fine, but now matter what i do, on a PC with firefox I get “Live Bookmarks Loading” for both atom and rss feeds. anyone else run into this?

neil

By: The Apple Blog » Custom blog themes for 10.4’s blog server?

The Apple Blog » Custom blog themes for 10.4’s blog server? — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:40:36 +0000

[...] Rich Trouton I’ve continued working with 10.4 Server’s blog server since my earlier entry. Since then, Apple’s updated the blog server with some ne [...]

By: Keith Bradnam

Keith Bradnam — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:38:39 +0000

With a little digging around I've found out how to add new themes for Apple's weblog server. Admittedly this is quite basic advice but I plan to play around a little more with this. Adding new themes to Apple's weblog server

By: Dave Sag

Dave Sag — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:17:00 +0000

We tried the built in blog but found it to be a bit buggy and some of the admin screens were broken. but the main killer for us was the requirement that users be actual users of the system. this means that for an sort of cross-posting, eg posting from flickr to the blog, you have to expose an actual user’s password. in my case i am an admin user of the machine so that in effect exposes a massive security risk.

so we had a look at movable type but for corporate use it’s prohibitively expensive. we have settled on WordPress. It’s excellent and with the vast amount of plugins it’s really powerful and free.

By: Ron Luna

Ron Luna — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 01:30:43 +0000

whats the best bloging software out there for mac ? apple s bloging software need a lot of work still i what some thing that will work well

Thanks

By: Rich Trouton

Rich Trouton — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 02:26:42 +0000

John,

You’ve just found the easiest fix to this problem that I’d yet run across. Thanks!

By: John Eriksson

John Eriksson — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 00:12:56 +0000

actually, I just found a way to remove the stupid guy’s blog from the list.
1) I removed the data folder so it became empty.
2) I resetted his password so I knew his password.
3) I logged in as him to his blog.
4) I clean all the text fields in the settings box.
5) I sent him a mail about new password notification :)

Problem solved. Too easy to be easy. :)

By: John Eriksson

John Eriksson — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 23:51:25 +0000

ah, have just started to try out this thing. any user on my server can create an own blog, but I can’t remove them. Some asshole has made a blog named “go jurk off” with no content, and I can’t remove it from the blog list. bummer.

By: davesag

davesag — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:09:01 +0000

I have encountered several problems with blojsom. the main one is that it is altering html in the entries in such a was as to break it. try blogging across from flickr to tiger server’s blojsom – you’ll end up with the … tags displayed inline as the have been converted to html entities. i can’t see any way to change this.